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PHILOSOPHICAL PERIODICALS. 287 [Doubt about all the revealed religions is the main characteristic of our time. But is it not possible to lay on this very doubt the foundation of a kind of religion which would not abolish the positive religions, but rather include them and even lead to higher moral consequences ? M. G. Prevost undertakes this task and delineates what he calls the religion of doubt. His leading ideas, in which the reader will recognise both a very old doctrine of a noble inspiration, and an uncritical attitude of mind, are the following : God should be conceived as the necessary ground of all, and the unknowable Infinite. The existence of the human soul has had no beginning and shall have no end ; we have lived anterior lives of which we have vague reminiscences, and in the continuity of its future lives the soul will probably pass, by personal, intellectual and moral endeavour, into more perfect states. The modern ideas of evolu- tion and the recent theory of matter are advocated by the author as confirmative of his general views. Meanwhile, certainty in the know- ledge of our destiny would eradicate in man the desire and the merit of action : doubt is the greatest gift for mankind. The author holds it possible to build up on the basis of his principles an ethics of a practical and very high character which shall afford an adequate sanction to our sentiment of justice.] Revue Generate : GK Richard. ' La Philosophie du droit au point de vue sociologique.' [A critical review of nine books recently published five of them in Italy treating of the philosophy of law.] 'Analyses et Comptes-rendus. 1 Revue des Periodiques etrangers [A review of MIND, 1905, January-October]. ARCHIVES DE PSYCHOLOGIE. Tome v., No. 2. A. Lemaitre. ' Fritz- Algar : histoire et guerison d'un desordre cerebral precoce.' [Account of a case of hysteria (nightmares, autoscopic hallucinations, soliloquies) in a youth of fifteen ; treatment and cure by suggestive redintegration of dissociation.] W. de Bechterew. ' Des signes objectifs de la sugges- tion pendant le sommeil hypnotique.' [Many suggestions, given in the hpynotic state, and apparently accepted by the subject, are not actually realised. It is therefore important to possess objective (physiological) means of control. The writer gives a list of such objective tests.] W. de Bechterew. ' Nouvel appareil pour 1'examen de la perception ac- oustique.' [Description of an acoumeter, of the type of Zoth's and Lehmann's.] P. Cereaole. ' Le parallelisme psycho-physiologique et 1'argument de M. Bergson.' [To refute parallelism by M. Bergson's argument, one must show that as a matter of fact the external world may be modified without modification of the nervous system. Com- parison of determinism and parallelism, as similar theories applied respectively to time and to space.] E. Claparede. 'L'Agrandissement et la proximite apparents de la lune a 1'horizon.' [Review of theories : new observations. We overestimate the moon on the horizon because we take it for a terrestrial object. We do this partly because of its situation in space, partly because its colour changes prevent or hinder recognition and identification. Further, we overestimate it for affective reasons, on account of our interest in terrestrial objects.] Recueil de faits : Documents et Discussions. M. Hoch. ' Note sur les provisions de rencontre.' [Our thinking of people just before we met them may be due to suggestion from familiar localities, to actual (but subconscious) recognition at a distance, or to simple coincidence. There is no need to invoke telepathy, etc.] A. Elmer. ' Vme Conference suisse pour I'e'du- cation des anormaux, St. Gall, 1905.' T. Jonckheere. 'La III me conference beige pour I'ame'lioration du sort de 1'enfance anormale.' Bibliographie. Notes diverses.